Quote Originally Posted by Onthe405 View Post
It's extremely doubtful BMO would use the full Bank of Montreal name in the States. The majority of US consumers & businesses are skittish in perceiving that "their" bank is ostensibly "foreign owned". I say "ostensibly" because, in terms of shareholders, many US-chartered banks have majority stockholders from overseas--but public perception is all in the name.

Toronto Dominion Bank already has a substantial presence in the US, but they understandably market themselves with names like TD Ameritrade and TD Bank Financial Group , which masks any obvious Canadian moniker.

Other US retail banks like HSBC [[UK) and Union Bank [[Japan) also don't have any obvious indications of their international origin in the name.
Royal Bank of Canada bought Centura Bank and uses RBC-Centura on their banks in the US.